Ask Slashdot: Designing a Telecom Configuration Center?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 7, 2014 @04:10AM from the use-only-genuine-panaphonics-equipement dept.

First time accepted submitter Big Jim Taters (1490261) writes "I have been tasked with helping move our config center from one location to our Headquarters. I have a small budget and no choice in location. I do, however, have an opportunity to design the space fresh (well, kinda.) What we will be configuring is routers, switches, firewalls, and other telecom related devices. What I cannot find is any "Best Practices" or "Lessons Learned" out there. So I ask you fine folks: What are some of the best and worst designs, practices, procedures, and work flows that you have encountered in sitting down to stage anywhere from 2 to 200 devices at once to get configured?"

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Another datacenter destined for failure by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-07 04:54 · Score: 5, Insightful

Either you padded your resume or your boss is dumb. Either way, you're taking a job away from one of the many qualified engineers who could succeed in this task.